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from the end of the Second World War until 1977, when Ethiopia began receiving massive arms shipments from the Soviet Union. These shipments, including armored patrol boats, transport and jet fighter aircraft, helicopters, tanks, trucks, missiles, artillery, and small arms have incurred an unserviced
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Ethiopia made significant purchases of arms from Russia in late 1999 and early 2000 before the May 2000 United Nations arms embargo went into effect. It is likely that much of that equipment suffered battle damage in the war with Eritrea. Thus, raw numbers alone will probably overstate the capacity
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Gebru Tareke listed Ethiopian ground forces in 1990 as comprising four revolutionary armies organized as task forces, eleven corps, twenty-four infantry divisions, and four mountain divisions, reinforced by five mechanized divisions, two airborne divisions, and ninety-five brigades, including four
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mechanized brigades, three artillery brigades, four tank brigades, twelve special commandos and para commandos brigades – including the Spartakiad, which became operational in 1987 under the preparation and guidance of North Koreans – seven
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The modern ENDF has a wide mix of equipment. Many of its major weapons systems stem from the Communist era and are of Soviet and Eastern bloc design. The United States was Ethiopia's major
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The Military Balance 2012 estimated that about 450 BRDM, BMP, BTR-60, BTR-152, and Type 89 armoured fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers were in service.
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Each of the four corps comprises a headquarters, an estimated one mechanised division and between 4 and 6 infantry divisions.
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estimated in the Military Balance 2009 that the army comprised 4 Military Regional Commands; (Northern (HQ
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Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars: Volume 2: Eritrean War of Independence, 1988-1991 & Badme War, 1998-2001
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16 M55 Quad quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns may have been in service from the United States.
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had also grown to about 200,000 members. The mechanized forces of the army comprised 1,200
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Ethiopian Army soldiers at a ceremony marking Ethiopia joining AMISOM in Somalia.
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Ethiopian debt to the former Soviet Union estimated at more than $ 3.5 billion.
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To these armies were assigned the operational forces of the army, comprising:
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self-propelled anti-aircraft guns may have been ordered but never delivered.
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Many thousands of Ethiopian peacekeepers were also involved in the hybrid
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Ethiopia also provided the entire force for the UN's Abyei mission, the
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Two major previous Ethiopian missions were in Liberia and Darfur. The
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In 2014 the regional commanders were listed by dissident sources as:
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Forces underarms were estimated at 230,000 in early 1991. Mengistu's
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Creation noted by "Ethiopia: Mengestu Survives By His Fingertips",
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Many thousands of Ethiopian Army personnel were also part of the
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Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Berry, LaVerle Bennette, eds. (1993).
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Ethiopian Army soldiers marching in a military parade 2019.
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Land service branch of the Ethiopian National Defense Force
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A total of 150 T-55 - 90 from Soviet Union, +40 from
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battalions, and ten brigades of paramilitary forces.
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The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa
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Index

Army of the Ethiopian Empire
Ethiopia
Army
Ground warfare
Ethiopian National Defense Force
Gugsa Wale's rebellion
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
World War II
Korean War
United Nations Operation in the Congo
Eritrean War of Independence
1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
Ogaden War
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
Ethiopian Civil War
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
Somalia War (2006–2009)
2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden
Oromo conflict
Tigray War
2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia
War in Amhara
Supreme Commander
President
Sahle-Work Zewde
Commander-in-chief
Prime Minister
Abiy Ahmed
Minister of Defense
Abraham Belay

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